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02/04/2014 06:31:44 AM EST

Changes in jobless aid considered

BOSTON (AP) -- State Senate leaders have unveiled a bill that would make changes in the unemployment-insurance system aimed at lowering costs for businesses. The measure scheduled for debate Thursday would continue a freeze on unemployment-insurance rates through 2017 and reward with lower rates companies that have consistently strong employment records. The bill also expands an exemption given to seasonal businesses from 16 to 20 weeks.

Man struck crossing Worcester street dies

WORCESTER (AP) -- A Millbury man struck by a teenage driver late last week as he was running across Route 20 in Worcester has died. Police say 38-year-old David Drost died at the hospital on Sunday night after getting struck Friday about 11 p.m. Drost was apparently trying to run across the street near a bar when he was struck by a westbound car driven by a 16-year-old Millbury girl. Police say the impact threw him into the bar's parking lot with head trauma and internal injuries. The crash remains under investigation.

Wendell fire chief retires after 57 years

WENDELL (AP) -- Fire Chief Everett Ricketts, 77, is retiring at the end of this month after 57 years as a firefighter, 38 of them as chief. Ricketts moved to Wendell from Boston in 1955 to raise pigs with his brother. They picked Wendell, about 70 miles west of Boston, because it was the closest place to the city where the land they needed was affordable and available.

Man allegedly shot by Hernandez is shot

HARTFORD, Conn.

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(AP) -- A man who alleges he was shot in the face by former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in Florida was shot again, this time outside a Connecticut nightclub, where he then opened fire, police said Monday. Alexander Bradley was part of a disturbance involving money Sunday that spilled outside the Vevo Lounge Bar & Grill, police Lt. Brian Foley said. After the 31-year-old was shot multiple times in the right thigh, he retrieved a gun from his car and tried to enter the nightclub, Foley said, before he opened fire. Bradley alleges in a Florida lawsuit he lost his right eye when Hernandez shot him in the face as they argued in Miami last February.

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